Forms and reports migration

hi
I am new to forms and reports.I have to migrate 6i,9i forms and reports to 10g. Can any one suggest me what exactly should I do. How can I easily recognise forms and reports and also the steps to migrate them
thanks in advance

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I don't know if this is an obvious question, but do you have MS Access 2k installed on the machine you are trying to run this from? I'm assuming yes.
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Is there any white paper that describes about how to migrate from client server architecture to a web running on UNIX?
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check this out:
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That's one possibility but the thing is that I don't want to open ALL the fmbs and then add that piece of code.
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